Coldest place on earth?
 

Around Edmonton, apparently so.
Worked all day in it and thought it a little nippy, picked up a wooden pitch fork un-gloved, stupidly, and my hand even stuck to that, new one on me :ohmy:

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below -40 with windchill?

Nasty!

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I would have thought Antarctica was colder than northern Alberta.

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I would have thought so too but from what I can find it's a balmy -33 at their coldest station.

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Banff has been a bit shitty with the cold this week , cant wait to get home to a tropical minus 2 or 3

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Ah, I see, you mean "currently". A bit long standing British tabloid tradition of claiming a hot summer's day as being hotter than Nairobi or something! Last time there was a discussion on this topic I think coldest actual temps being reported (by BE's in Canada) was about -56C. I think my record low is -37.

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Antarctica is in the middle of the summer right now. The record is -89C actual, no idea when you include the windchill.

However, a co-worker told me that one time he was working up north (not sure exactly where) the local weather forecast said they couldn't give a windchill temperature because the table didn't go down that low.

If I remember correctly, the worst I've been out in is -44C actual and -54C with windchill.

Edit: interestingly, the table in the Wikipedia article on Antarctica's climate would class that as 'Condition 3: Pleasant conditions; all outside travel is permitted.'

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My husband was working in Spence Bay and it was minus 47 with a 40 knot wind, he always tells me that it was that particular day that made him decide to leave Canada.....I'm not sure quite what caused him to decide to return:thumbup:

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It's a bracing -32 here now, so I'll dress accordingly for the walk to work. The meteoroli... meteorolo... weather scientist on tv said it could be colder than normal right through Christmas.

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Batsman says the coldest he has experienced is -60C. That was one summer in Antarctica. He played golf on an iceberg in -10C.

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right now at home its sunny and minus 38 (without w/c) I'm about to go outside for another cigarette, it takes longer to get dressed and undressed than it does to smoke it :(

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Don't envy you that at all.

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should try going for a pee :thumbdown: and the colder weather makes me go more.....or is that all the extra coffee I'm consuming :unsure:

apologies if that's TMI

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I don't know which is more disturbing with this post.....the bit about the fags, or the visual of clothes on/off :rofl: TMI much?

http://www.lissgallery.com/todd_gold...king_Kills.jpg

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Mandy, I'm not anti cigarette....but whenever I see people in Canada outside in freezing conditions, I think they must be nuts...I am sure I'd just become a fair weather smoker...